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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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